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IBM DS8000

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Update DS8000 Red Books to document encryption algorithm & mode

Update DS8000 Red Books to document encryption algorithm & mode e.g. AES-256-XTS
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Increase the maximum number of consistency groups

We need to support more than 32 consistency groups (idealy double). We have a customer that is using a DS8k in Open (non-Z environement) and this limitation have an impact to current installation but also to any feature DS8k installations . For ex...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

TLS Certificate import to Trustore for Call Home and RCL Download

Clients more often are using IPS (Intrusion Prevention System ) / Deep Packet Inspection on their proxy or firewalls and demand the possibility to import own RootCA and Intermediate CA as the firewalls injecting their own certificates which result...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 3 Delivered

Automating the management of certificates on devices

The creation, renewal and deletion of server certificates on devices is a manual process that has to be done through the GUI. The management of this can be a lot when dealing with multiple machines and requires a reboot. In the future if, for comp...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

DS8K Safeguard Copy Integration with IBM Qradar

Customer keen in exploring ways of using DS8000 Safeguard copy to integrate with IBM Qradar, to enhance their Cyber and Data Resiliency. We've this new offerings in Flashsystem with Spectrum Virtualize product family, but no plan for DS8000.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Safeguard-immutable copies should remain until their retention expires

Currently, if there isn't enough space for a safeguarded copy, old copies are removed from the DS8 to allow for the new copy to take place. A safeguarded copy should never expire before it's retention period. Safeguarded copies should stop, and al...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

DS8000 DSCLI mkkpprc command output enhancement

The mkpprc command with the nocp option indicates successful completion for already existing MTIR pairs. Since the MTIR is a system defined PPRC relationship, that only exists on the source device, the successful completion of the mkpprc command f...
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

DS8000 Host Adapter - fcping support

Provide fcping capability on DS8K host adapters similar to what existed on 8Gb HAs. Below is a comment from IBM Development REF PMR 23506,082,000 regarding ECHO ELS handling in newer HAs. "It looks like it is a difference on how the ECHO ELS is ha...
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

DS8000 APIs for WUI user management

Request to provide REST APIs for DS8000 HMC (WUI) user management - e.g. lshmcuser, mkhmcuser, chhmcuser, rmhmcuser.
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Improve DS8000 Host Adapter architecture to provide greater performance over larger fiber distance (RTT 50ms)

It has been found that over a fiber distance of 50ms RTT, the 32G Host Adapter provides a maximum throughput of 500 MB/s if 1 PPRC port is utilized on the HA. The PPRC port was connected to a 32G port on the Director which in turn had a 128G tunne...
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered